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2026-06-01 - Historic Preservation Board

Summary

Built from the official minutes (Legistar status: Final). No video is posted.

  • Present: 5 (Chair Lowenberg, Board Member Musick, Beerbaum, Potter, MacEnulty). Absent: Board Member Paul Baumgartner.
  • Change to agenda: Musick moved, MacEnulty seconded, to postpone the 2026 Work Plan (HPB 2314) to the July 13 meeting. Passed unanimously, 5-0 (Baumgartner absent).
  • Minutes of February 2, 2026 approved 3-0-2-1 (motion Potter, second Beerbaum; aye Musick, Beerbaum, Potter; abstain Lowenberg and MacEnulty; absent Baumgartner).
  • Minutes of March 2, 2026 approved 3-0-2-1 (motion Beerbaum, second Musick; same alignment; Musick as Acting Chair presented the item).
  • Consent Calendar approved unanimously, 5-0 (motion Musick, second MacEnulty); it included the two Wood Avenue historic overlay cases. Nothing was called off the Consent Calendar; there was no unfinished or new business.
  • Chair Lowenberg received a resignation letter from Paul Baumgartner, who is relocating.
  • Council had appointed a new voting member (Earl Chip MacEnulty) and three alternates (Nicole Kappner, John Wendt and Shannon Baumgartner); outgoing member Jim Hines was thanked for six years. The two newly seated members introduced themselves.

Communications

  • Ryan Tefertiller, Urban Planning Manager, ran the meeting because William Gray was unexpectedly absent. He reported that at the prior week's Council meeting Councilmember Henjum introduced a resolution recognizing May as Historic Preservation Month, and that Gray is working with Lindsay Flewelling to schedule a training session for the Board.
  • 1915 Wood Avenue: Report of Acceptability to convert a 576 square foot detached garage to include a 1,249 square foot ADU and add a new 1,073 square foot detached garage (HIST-26-0004). Staff presenter Gray. See Wood Avenue Garage Unit Conversion.
  • 1531 Wood Avenue: Report of Acceptability for a 304 square foot rear addition and a garage-to-ADU conversion with a 1,248 square foot ADU (HIST-26-0005). Staff presenter Ethan Shafer. See Wood Avenue Historic House Addition.

Sources

Data notes: the minutes do not state the result of the Wood Avenue cases other than through the Consent Calendar vote. The agenda numbering in the minutes is out of order (the Work Plan appears as 9.A, the Wood Avenue cases as 8.A and 5.A). The newly appointed alternate Shannon Baumgartner is a different person from the departing member; the earlier-created surname-only page Alternate Baumgartner covers the alternate.